Data Centers, Crypto Miners, and Gamers Are All Battling for Semiconductors
These days, there's a shortage of chips everywhere you look. Some of it is related to idiosyncratic events specifically related to logistics. Some of it is related to production challenges relating to...
27 Touko 202152min
Daniela Gabor on the Critical Case Against Private Sector ESG
Over the last few years, ESG has become a gigantic industry. Due to concerns over climate, the treatment of workers, and other public matters, there's been a huge influx of money into investments that...
24 Touko 202142min
Aaron Lammer on Yield Farming and Trading in the World of DeFi
"Decentralized Finance," "Yield farming"... you've probably heard these terms before, but have very little idea about how they all work. On a recent episode, we spoke with one of the creators of the l...
20 Touko 20211h 5min
How the World's Companies Wound Up in a Deepening Supply Chain Nightmare
By now, everybody knows that global supply chains are a mess. Not a day goes by where there isn't news of some shortage or bottleneck. Chips, shipping containers, lumber, you name it. So how did it ha...
17 Touko 202149min
Jared Bernstein on Taxes, Spending, and Why President Biden Wants to 'Pay for It'
Jared Bernstein has been a longtime advisor to President Joe Biden. He was his advisor while Biden was Vice President, and today he serves on the Council of Economic Advisors. On the latest Odd Lots, ...
13 Touko 202154min
Viktor Shvets on Inflation and How Crypto Could Cause the Next Financial Crisis
What will the economy really look like when things normalize? Lots of people are, of course, anticipating a sustained rise in inflation, even beyond this burst in prices right now. Our guest this week...
10 Touko 202139min
Hayden Adams Explains Uniswap and the Rise of DeFi
There's an irony with crypto. While so much of it is ostensibly about circumventing legacy finance, many of the most important pieces of crypto infrastructure are centralized financial entities. For e...
6 Touko 202155min
How to Make the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Boom Again
This year, everyone's become aware of the hollowing out of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Whether it's the rise of TSMC, the stumbles at Intel, or the inability of car companies to acquire...
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